About five dozen people stood in a steady rain outside the Oyster Bay clerk's office yesterday, holding signs and chanting, "Let Dan and Lee Marry," as an East Hills gay couple applied for a marriage license. Dan Pinello, 58, and Lee Nissensohn, 50, walked in at 3:30 p.m. and when they walked out nearly two hours later, they each had a ticket for trespassing.

The two men had been prepared to be arrested to make a point about the need for a law in New York that would allow same-sex marriage. But the couple relented and agreed beforehand with town officials to leave once they were ticketed. "We are law-abiding citizens," said Pinello, a government professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "We pay our taxes. We have no other choice left."

Town Clerk Steven L. Labriola, standing next to Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, refused to issue the license, telling the couple he was "precluded by law" from doing it. "We're not trying to make statements here, we're trying to do our jobs," he said later.

The goal of the couple's "act of civil disobedience" - as they called it - was to persuade Sen. Carl Marcellino (R-Syosset) to pressure State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Brunswick) to take a bill that would allow same-sex marriage to the Senate floor for a vote.

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[ Article By Joseph Couture ]Statistics show straights are having much more unsafe sex than gay men.THE FINGER POINTING has resumed. Since the recent release of statistics showing a higher rate of HIV infection than previously thought and a spike in syphilis rates, the enemies of the gay community have been quick to accuse of us of being irresponsible. But let’s look past the rhetoric of hate and examine the facts.

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention has revised its figures and is now reporting that nearly 53,000 Americans are living with HIV infection.It is important to point out this is the total number, which not only includes gay men, but those who were infected through blood transfusions or the use of intravenous drugs or through straight sex. I have heard the chatter amongst the critics who have been quick to claim this is proof that men who have sex with men are having unsafe sex en masse.

I would say the evidence suggests otherwise and those critics should look at their own behavior before they start criticizing others. While recently working on my new book about public sex, as a part of my research, I watched a large selection of straight porn. One of the first things that I noticed is that the actors in heterosexual pornography do not use condoms as a rule.....

In what has been described as a landmark case against discrimination of same-sex couples, a gay couple who had their initial application to become foster parents denied has successfully had the verdict overturned, as well as have compensation issued.

The couple, who have not had their identities revealed, lodged a complaint with the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board after a welfare agency denied their application to become foster parents, despite laws in the state allowing same-sex couples to be foster parents.

The Administrative Decisions Tribunal has ruled that the couple was “unlawfully discriminated against on the ground of homosexuality” and as a result overturned the ban as well as awarding $10,000 in compensation after the couple were “deeply hurt, insulted and embarrassed”.

Human beings crave experiences that take us beyond our everyday routines.If we want more out of life, we will want to look at patterns that are holding us back right now. (This part of a continuing series of columns for GAYTWOGETHER authored by John R. Ballew, M.S., a licensed private practice professional in Atlanta - specializing in issues related to coming out, sexuality, relationships and spirituality.)We need to go beyond the ordinary from time to time and get caught up in something that feels bigger than we are. Getting beyond our sense of individual isolation that feeds our souls. Sex does it for a number of us, and that’s what most people associate with the word passion. Some of us find passion in work; some of us find it in involvement with something bigger than ourselves. Some of us get to a transcendent place when we are dancing the night away – connecting with the beat, with others, losing our sense of ourselves as separated from the environment around us. What are you passionate about?

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